All the world loves a holiday! At a minimum we get a day off from work. At the most, grand celebrations and quality time with family and friends. On a deeper level, holidays often ask us to look back at a shared history.

Food is almost always part of any holiday celebration. Good food at its best is a shared experience, and holiday food traditions are a social glue that binds cultures together.

Establishing a vegan wardrobe doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Finding cruelty-free clothing and accessories has never been easier! Whether you’re new to cruelty-free shopping and looking to start with a few basics, or a long-time vegan looking to refresh your wardrobe, it’s easy to wear the change you seek in the world! After all, fabrics don’t have to bleed in order to have a gorgeous, modern, and well-stocked compassionate closet! Let's shop!

From A to Z, we’ve assembled an exhaustive list of fabrics, materials, and textiles. “V” indicates vegan, “N” for non-vegan, and “N/V” are materials that can be made of both vegan and non-vegan materials (potentially requiring a little extra research to make sure no animals were harmed!).

What happens when you get vegan friends together to make a video? (Spoiler!) Awesome sauce!!

SynopsisEnticed by a mysterious invitation promising fun, fashion, and fame, four strangers came together at a secret location in the heart of Downtown Denver. They knew they would star in a video. They knew they would be outfitted with designer cruelty-free fashions. But little did they know...

Occupying the 8th position in the Chinese Zodiac, the sheep (goat, or ram) is among the animals that people like most, symbolizing such character traits as creativity, intelligence, dependability, and calmness. They are gentle, sensitive animals who are emotionally complex and highly intelligent.

Now that the wrapping paper’s all swept away, it’s time to start thinking about the year ahead. The custom of starting the New Year with a resolution has good intentions behind it. With a little self-reflection, we all see areas of our life that we’d like to improve and bad habits that we’d like to shake. But for most, our resolutions don’t get very far as the force of habit take hold again. This year, instead of making the same old list of quit-this, lose-that, self-improvement resolutions, resolve to be the change you want to see in the world.

There’s no question that the holidays can be a stressful time. And navigating the holidays as a vegan can be even more stressful: wondering if there will be anything you can eat at family gatherings, obligatory company functions, and holiday parties. Hoping to avoid awkward conversations to explain why are you not eating. These can lead to feelings of being judged or that you are judging others (as many give “thanks” by taking innocent lives). Or feelings that you are breaking precious family tradition.

Most leather comes from the skin of animals raised for meat. Contrary to popular belief, animal skins (along with wool, fur, feathers) are not the byproduct of the meat industry. In fact, a cow’s skin can be the most profitable portion of the cow’s body, making up half of all profits of slaughterhouses that process cattle. Leather is a not a by-product, it is a co-product. This means that leather helps make the meat industry—and animal farming—profitable, which is destroying the planet.

We recently had the pleasure of connecting with Vegansaurus!, one of the most popular vegan lifestyle blogs, covering food, politics, and vegan news. Founded in 2008 now with over 32,000 Twitter followers, over 85,000 Facebook fans, over 10,000 followers on Tumblr, and referenced in numerous forums, such as the New York Times, VegNews, and the HuffingtonPost to name a few, Vegansaurus! has become an authority on all-things related to veganism!

So naturally, we jumped at the chance to talk with them to share more about our passions, our mission, how we carefully select the products we carry, and the vegan inspirations that drive The Compassionate Closet.